Arts & Culture

An adventurous and accessible arts organization, Flipside Opera & Art Song Collective has provided unique opportunities to Manitoba-based singers and inspired programming to audiences. Fully-staged operas, competitions, casual performances—often with beer in hand—this weekend Flipside presents their annual fundraiser.

The Château Laurier says it's been able to narrow down a time frame of when it believes a famous portrait of Sir Winston Churchill was stolen from its walls: sometime between Christmas Day last year and Jan. 6.

The hotel appealed for help from the public yesterday after a staff member noticed the photo wasn't hung correctly over the weekend, and an inspection revealed that the portrait was a copy, not an original. 

Greta Constantine is vying for back-to-back wins in the womenswear category at the Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards.

The Toronto label, which clinched the prize last year, was named among the nominees Tuesday for the awards honouring homegrown talent setting trends on the runway.

Also competing in the womenswear category are Hilary MacMillan, Silk Laundry, LECAVALIER and UNTTLD.

In menswear, the contenders are Mr. Saturday, SECTION 35, École de Pensée, Christopher Bates and Raised by Wolves.

(REVIEW) Want to gaze at the enormity of the Sistine Chapel without ever going to the Vatican? Now you can.

“Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition,” currently on a 27-city world tour, highlights the wonder of one of history’s greatest artistic achievements, allowing visitors to experience it like they never have before.

This exhibit is truly a chance to see Michelangelo’s work at eye level. It’s also a much cheaper and closer option than flying to Rome. For that alone, it’s worth a look.

On Wednesday, August 17th, 2022, the Rosamunde Summer String Academy and Festival started. Students from around the country and around the world have amassed at Winnipeg’s Canadian Mennonite University (CMU), to study and learn from some of Canadas’s foremost string players.

It sounds like a caper from a movie: a thief seems to have swapped out the famous portrait of a scowling Sir Winston Churchill, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, with a signed copy.

A staff member at Ottawa's Château Laurier noticed on Friday that the frame in the Reading Lounge wasn't hanging properly and didn't look the same as the others in the collection. An inspection revealed the photo in the frame was not the original, but it is not clear how long the copy has been hanging.

Olena Kayinska was forced to put down her paintbrush at the end of February.

The Ukrainian artist was in the middle of a project when Russian troops invaded her country, prompting her to leave her studio and stay with her mother.

Thoughts of returning to art seemed like a luxury amid all the death and destruction, but the events also provided material for the project she had to unexpectedly abandon six months ago. 

Now, some of her pieces are among those featured in a global online auction co-organized by a former Winnipegger.

Winnipeg Arts Council is postponing the bike tour to August 25, next week Thursday due to the extreme downpour in the city.

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The Winnipeg Art Council is preparing for an art and architecture bike tour that will lead participants all around the city to see the beauty of local libraries.

Bows at the ready! 

String players of all skill levels and ages will return to the campus at Canadian Mennonite University to take part in one of Canada’s premier training grounds.

Manitoba Underground Opera (MUO) presents weird and wonderful ways of telling old stories with new perspectives.